I attended this year’s NDC (Norwegian developer conference) in Oslo. It was a very interesting conference, but as a short summary, it saw something like a consolidation. JavaScript – as some people say in its fourth generation (Simple Scripts, AJAX, MVC-Framworks, SPA) – is finally accepted as a language like C# or Java. Also in the agile world there is no hype anymore about Scrum or Kanban. It was more how and when to use it. One major topic, which…

I’ve got for several years a virtual server to put my own projects under version control. I started with CVS, then migrated to SVN and now I’m start thinking to migrate all the old projects to git. This because I like git very much and I use it personally for several years now. The first question but was: “Not invented here”-syndrom? Why not using github or codeplex or any other public platform which offers git support. Well, some of my…

Recently I had to migrate parts from a Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 2005 repository to a Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010 repository. In this blog post I show what I had to do and what the pitfalls were. The tool To migrate a repository you have at least two possibilities: Migrate the latest snapshot or the whole history. Normally you prefer a migration of the whole history, so you don’t loose the gained advantage of an version control system. To migrate…

When I was at the NDC, I had also the possibility to visit with colleagues the city of Oslo. During a stop in front of a little shop, a colleague discovered a post card about Viking laws. When I read it, I was really surprised how well the laws fit to today’s software practices. The Viking laws are grouped in four paragraphs. I pick the most interesting laws for each paragraph and try to make some relations to the software…

I was at the Norwegian Developer Conference (NDC) 2012 in Oslo. It is one of the best conferences I know in Europe. One reason is, that a lot of alpha-geeks are speaking there. There were during three days 8 parallels tracks, so you have to manage your program. My program looked like this: Wednesday, 6.6.2012 Keynote, Aral Balkan Decisions, Decisions, Dan North Professional Software Development, Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob) Agile Estimating, Mike Cohn Modeling Distributed Systems with NServiceBus Studio,…

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My name is Patrick Weibel and I'm a software architect. I am passionate about software engineering and software architecture. It is very important for me to do continuous learning and to improve myself.